---
name: "LaKeith Stanfield"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lakeith-stanfield"
fi1m_id: "lakeith-stanfield"
imdb_id: "nm3147751"
tmdb_id: 1200864
wikidata_id: "Q16762370"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "12 August 1991"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 13
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 13
updated: "2026-09-24T21:52:24.516614+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# LaKeith Stanfield

## Identity

LaKeith Stanfield

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lakeith-stanfield
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lakeith-stanfield
- **IMDb ID:** nm3147751
- **TMDB ID:** 1200864
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16762370
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaKeith_Stanfield, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16762370, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3147751/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1200864

Actor. Born 12 August 1991 in San Bernardino, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 August 1991, San Bernardino, California, USA
- **Active:** 2013–present
- **Also known as:** Keith Stanfield, LaKeith Lee Stanfield, Lakeith Stanfield
- **Frequently works with:** [Boots Riley](https://film.one/person/boots-riley.md), [Daniel Kaluuya](https://film.one/person/daniel-kaluuya.md), [Zazie Beetz](https://film.one/person/zazie-beetz.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as actor, over 13 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 84 (8), 2020s 67 (5)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 77 across 13 titles
- **Score spread:** 8 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 3 of 13 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 9, Comedy 6, Crime 4, History 3, Fantasy 2, Mystery 2
- **Screen time:** 24 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,086m across 12 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaKeith_Stanfield, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16762370, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3147751/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1200864

## Coming up

- *F.A.S.T.* (2027-05-12)

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Get Out*](https://film.one/film/get-out.md) (89), [*Atlanta*](https://film.one/tv/atlanta.md) (87), [*Haunted Mansion*](https://film.one/film/haunted-mansion.md) (51)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Short Term 12*](https://film.one/film/short-term-12.md) (86), [*Knives Out*](https://film.one/film/knives-out.md) (81), [*Sorry to Bother You*](https://film.one/film/sorry-to-bother-you.md) (81)
- **Netflix:** [*Selma*](https://film.one/film/selma.md) (84), [*Straight Outta Compton*](https://film.one/film/straight-outta-compton.md) (76)
- **Apple TV:** [*Die My Love*](https://film.one/film/die-my-love.md) (71), [*Roofman*](https://film.one/film/roofman.md) (68)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Uncut Gems*](https://film.one/film/uncut-gems.md) (85)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on LaKeith Stanfield

> LaKeith Stanfield is good at playing people who do not make their hurt easy to read. We rate his quietness and peculiar humour, and wish more of his films trusted him to hold our attention without interruption.

In *Haunted Mansion* (2023), LaKeith Stanfield explains a camera to Rosario Dawson’s Gabbie without lifting his tired, flat voice. We were moved because he left the feeling in the words rather than announcing it with a change of tone. As Ben Matthias, a widower hired to photograph a haunted house, he sounds as though being asked to explain anything is an imposition. That reluctance gives a film crowded with explanations someone worth listening to.

In his feature debut, *Short Term 12* (2013), his Marcus resists the sweet, grateful manner that dramas about young people in care can encourage. He also gives Brie Larson’s Grace someone substantial to respond to, so she cannot dominate every encounter. Director Destin Daniel Cretton lets the residents and staff be funny without making their pain the joke. The script sometimes arranges their suffering too neatly, but the acting gives us reason to stay.

His work then found a natural home in stranger comedy, particularly as Darius in Donald Glover’s *Atlanta* (2016–2022). Jordan Peele’s *Get Out* (2017) brought him wider notice, while Boots Riley’s *Sorry to Bother You* (2018) put him at the centre of a surreal satire as Cassius Green. The unpredictable humour suits him. But reducing his appeal to eccentricity misses the vulnerability that makes it worth paying attention when he stops being funny.

*Haunted Mansion* shows what happens when a film gives that quieter acting too little room. Justin Simien gets a properly weary performance from him, but Phillip J. Bartell’s editing keeps repeating the same sequence of room, ghost, explanation and joke. Stanfield can give the exposition a reluctant human voice; he cannot make it stop arriving. It is a good performance in a middling film, and we would not send anyone to it just for him.

Lynne Ramsay’s *Die My Love* (2025) uses him as Karl, the stranger on a motorbike who catches Grace’s attention. The casting makes sense for an actor whose appeal includes making us wonder what someone is thinking. Start with *Short Term 12* if the eccentric parts are all that come to mind.

## Biography

LaKeith Stanfield is an American actor. Born on 12 August 1991 in San Bernardino, California, he made his feature film debut in *Short Term 12* (2013), earning a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male.

He received wider recognition for his performance as Andre Logan King in *Get Out* (2017). Stanfield has also appeared in *Selma* (2014), *Straight Outta Compton* (2015), *Sorry to Bother You* (2018), *Uncut Gems* (2019), *Knives Out* (2019) and *Judas and the Black Messiah* (2021), the last of which brought a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He played Ben Matthias in *Haunted Mansion* (2023) and Karl in *Die My Love* (2025). On television, he starred in *Atlanta* (2016–2022).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (13)

- *I Love Boosters* (2026), Fi1m 64, as Pinky Ring Guy — [page](https://film.one/film/i-love-boosters.md)
- *Die My Love* (2025), Fi1m 71, as Karl — [page](https://film.one/film/die-my-love.md)
- *Roofman* (2025), Fi1m 68, as Steve — [page](https://film.one/film/roofman.md)
- *Haunted Mansion* (2023), Fi1m 51, as Ben Matthias — [page](https://film.one/film/haunted-mansion.md)
- *Judas and the Black Messiah* (2021), Fi1m 80, as Bill O'Neal — [page](https://film.one/film/judas-and-the-black-messiah.md)
- *Knives Out* (2019), Fi1m 81, as Lieutenant Elliott — [page](https://film.one/film/knives-out.md)
- *Uncut Gems* (2019), Fi1m 85, as Demany — [page](https://film.one/film/uncut-gems.md)
- *Sorry to Bother You* (2018), Fi1m 81, as Cassius Green — [page](https://film.one/film/sorry-to-bother-you.md)
- *Get Out* (2017), Fi1m 89, as Andre Logan King — [page](https://film.one/film/get-out.md)
- *Atlanta* (2016), Fi1m 87, as Darius Epps — [page](https://film.one/tv/atlanta.md)
- *Straight Outta Compton* (2015), Fi1m 76, as Snoop Dogg — [page](https://film.one/film/straight-outta-compton.md)
- *Selma* (2014), Fi1m 84, as Jimmie Lee Jackson — [page](https://film.one/film/selma.md)
- *Short Term 12* (2013), Fi1m 86, as Marcus — [page](https://film.one/film/short-term-12.md)

## Complete filmography (61)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *F.A.S.T.* (2027), Actor
- *The Wrong Girls* (2026), as Not Metal Head Dave
- *I Love Boosters* (2026), as Pinky Ring Guy — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/i-love-boosters.md)
- *Roofman* (2025), as Steve — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/roofman.md)
- *Die My Love* (2025), as Karl — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/die-my-love.md)
- *Play Dirty* (2025), as Grofield
- *Mr. Miracle* (2025), Actor
- *Escape Room* (2025), Actor
- *Ernest Cole: Lost and Found* (2024), as Ernest Cole (Voice over)
- *The Book of Clarence* (2024), as Clarence/Thomas
- *The Changeling* (2023), series, as Apollo Kagwa · Executive Producer
- *Haunted Mansion* (2023), as Ben Matthias — Fi1m 51, [page](https://film.one/film/haunted-mansion.md)
- *Metro Boomin: Heroes & Villains* (2022), Actor
- *The Harder They Fall* (2021), as Cherokee Bill
- *Yasuke* (2021), series, as Yasuke (voice) · Executive Producer
- *Judas and the Black Messiah* (2021), as Bill O'Neal — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/judas-and-the-black-messiah.md)
- *The Photograph* (2020), as Michael Block
- *Knives Out* (2019), as Lieutenant Elliott — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/knives-out.md)
- *Uncut Gems* (2019), as Demany — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/uncut-gems.md)
- *Someone Great* (2019), as Nate Davis
- *Let's Dance* (2018), as Segment: "Lunch Break"
- *The Girl in the Spider's Web* (2018), as Edwin Needham
- *Random Acts of Flyness* (2018), series, Actor
- *Sorry to Bother You* (2018), as Cassius Green — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/sorry-to-bother-you.md)
- *Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town* (2018), as George
- *Explained* (2018), series, as Narrator (voice)
- *Come Sunday* (2018), as Reggie
- *Quest* (2017), as Diego
- *Changers: A Dance Story* (2017), Actor
- *Death Note* (2017), as L
- *Crown Heights* (2017), as Colin Warner
- *Moonlight* (2017), as Chandler
- *War Machine* (2017), as Cpl. Billy Cole
- *Get Out* (2017), as Andre Logan King — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/get-out.md)
- *The Incredible Jessica James* (2017), as Damon
- *Snowden* (2016), as Patrick Haynes
- *Atlanta* (2016), series, as Darius Epps — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/tv/atlanta.md)
- *Live Cargo* (2016), as Lewis
- *Memoria* (2016), as Max
- *Miles Ahead* (2016), as Junior
- *Hard World for Small Things* (2016), as Sev
- *Tracks* (2015), as Lawrence
- *King Ripple* (2015), as King Ripple
- *Straight Outta Compton* (2015), as Snoop Dogg — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/straight-outta-compton.md)
- *Verbatim: The Ferguson Case* (2015), as Dorian Johnson
- *Dope* (2015), as Bug
- *Selma* (2014), as Jimmie Lee Jackson — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/selma.md)
- *The Fires, Howling* (2014), as The Staying One
- *BoJack Horseman* (2014), series, as Guy (voice) — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/bojack-horseman.md)
- *The Purge: Anarchy* (2014), as Young Goul Face
- *Waves* (2014), Actor
- *Short Term 12* (2013), as Marcus — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/short-term-12.md)
- *Short Term 12* (2008), as Mark
- *Slime*, as (voice)
- *Double Blind*, Actor
- *Notes from a Young Black Chef*, as Kwame Onwuachi · Executive Producer
- *48 Hours in Vegas*, as Dennis Rodman
- *Lear Rex*, as Edmund
- *El Paso, Elsewhere*, as James Savage · Producer
- *Untitled Fairy Tale Project*, Actor
- *Monsanto*, as Dewayne “Lee” Johnson

## Gallery

- ![Keith Stanfield speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Death Note", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please at](https://film.one/media/person/293/gallery-537a2aa7dc1f.jpg) Keith Stanfield speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Death Note", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please at — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Keith_Stanfield_%2835332960293%29.jpg/1280px-Keith_Stanfield_%2835332960293%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Keith Stanfield speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Death Note", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please at](https://film.one/media/person/293/gallery-a7bac0fe16e6.jpg) Keith Stanfield speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Death Note", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please at — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Keith_Stanfield_%2835299469754%29.jpg/1280px-Keith_Stanfield_%2835299469754%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Keith Stanfield speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Death Note", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please at](https://film.one/media/person/293/gallery-906fa403d30a.jpg) Keith Stanfield speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Death Note", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please at — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Keith_Stanfield_%2835970930612%29.jpg/1280px-Keith_Stanfield_%2835970930612%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![LaKeith Stanfield](https://film.one/media/person/293/gallery-7fc92c8b6147.jpg) LaKeith Stanfield — Image via TMDB
- ![LaKeith Stanfield](https://film.one/media/person/293/gallery-ce94d2357123.jpg) LaKeith Stanfield — Image via TMDB
- ![LaKeith Stanfield](https://film.one/media/person/293/gallery-80ade8162d1b.jpg) LaKeith Stanfield — Image via TMDB
- ![LaKeith Stanfield](https://film.one/media/person/293/gallery-02e5513c1985.jpg) LaKeith Stanfield — Image via TMDB
- ![LaKeith Stanfield](https://film.one/media/person/293/gallery-76428967679f.jpg) LaKeith Stanfield — Image via TMDB
- ![LaKeith Stanfield](https://film.one/media/person/293/gallery-e4900f853cf6.jpg) LaKeith Stanfield — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2021: Best Supporting Actor (nominated), for *Judas and the Black Messiah*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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